Theatre Trivia Tweet: Exiled for Ideas

Alan Cumming, in a play by the dramatists in question, will be on Broadway this season in Macbeth.

In Ancient Athens, Socrates was condemned for various crimes including corrupting the youth of Athens. A playwright was also convincted around the same time for his intellectual ideas. Unlike Socrates, who decided to face death rather than exile, this playwright chose exile. Who was this Athenian radical?